“Stan” is the third single from The Marshall Mathers LP, by rapper Eminem featuring Dido. It is also featured on Eminem’s first greatest hits compilation album, Curtain Call: The Hits. The song was produced by The 45 King, and uses a slightly modified break from Dido’s “Thank You” as its base sample. Coincidentally, both songs were released as singles in late 2000s. “Stan” peaked at number one in the United Kingdom and Australia and Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song #290 in their list in The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. “Stan” was shot at New Jersey Studios for Interscope Records on the opening day of Eminem’s Anger Management Tour.

The Marshall Mathers LP is the second studio album by American rapper Eminem, and considered one of his best and most successful albums. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and was also nominated for Album of the Year. The Marshall Mathers LP was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America in the United States with shipments over 10 million. The album has been ranked as one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all-time by such magazines as Rolling Stone, Time, and XXL.

Eminem is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. He is one of the best-selling artists in the world and is the best selling artist of the 2000s. He has been listed and ranked as one of the greatest artists of all time by many magazines including the Rolling Stone magazine which has ranked him 82nd on its list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The same magazine has declared him The King of Hip Hop.